Sony Is Making A Super Mario Bros. Animated Movie

My mind is too fucked to be able to properly function right now.

Sony Pictures and Nintendo appear to have closed a deal for the animated feature film rights to the Super Mario Bros. video game franchise, according to a series of emails discovered in the massive trove of hacked Sony files recently leaked to the media.

“I am the proud father of mario the animated film [sic],” producer Avi Arad told Sony studio chief Amy Pascal in an email dated Oct. 23, 2014, with the subject line “Mario.”Arad then forwarded Pascal separate images of him with Mario Bros. creator Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata, the latter of which included the message, “Happy ceo, lets get together, it’s the mother load. [sic]”

Pascal forwarded that email to Tom Rothman, who heads up Sony Pictures subsidiary TriStar Pictures. “Avi closed Mario brothers,” she said. “Animated.”

The deal represents only the first step in a very long road to a greenlight for an actual feature film. Animated films especially go through a long and rigorous script development process before a movie starts production. The emails also did not indicate any filmmakers attached to the project, although Pascal does at one point suggest Genndy Tartakovsky, who directed the 2012 Sony Pictures Animation feature Hotel Transylvania and created the Cartoon Network series Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Star Wars: Clone Wars. “[I]ts soooo perfect for him,” Pascal wrote. (A rep for Tartakovsky tells BuzzFeed News, however, that the filmmaker “is not involved.”)

On Oct. 24, Arad sent an email to Sony Pictures Animation president of production Michelle Raimo Kouyate thanking her for a congratulatory basket she sent him filled with Mario Bros. merchandise. “Thank you Avi!” Kouyate responded. “Let’s build a Mario empire!” Kouyate also sent a photo of the basket to Pascal, and said, “I can think of 3-4 movies right out of the gate on this. So huge!”

To be clear, this comes from the trove of leaked Sony documents and e-mails, as a result of the ongoing Sony Pictures hack (the same hack that revealed the existence of a Jump Street/Men In Black crossover movie, showed us how the Marvel/Spider-Man crossover almost happened, among many more, other messy details).

But a Sony developed Super Mario Bros. animated movie... wat.

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No Trailer... No movie....

These things happen all the time.

that will be cool if true

First signs of Nintendo going third party.

This is good. Sony can finally make worst Super mario bors movies ever and ruin Super mario reputation and ruin nintendo. In short: Sony kills Nintendo

**** you Chaz, I thought of posting this! >:(

I hope they include a scene akin to this gem:

Why would anyone insist on a Super Mario film? Its not movie material...

"...at one point suggest Genndy Tartakovsky..."

Never mind, count me in.

I have doubts on the quality of such a movie.

I don't. It will be awful, no doubt about it.

I would trust Pixar with a Mario movie, though it would never happen.

Don't see the point though... well I guess I do, Mario is a huge name, potential for big $$$ is there. Still dumb.

You kill quality threads.

Well that's what I was going for :P

Sony's got a very large movie production studio, several in fact. A licensed Nintendo flick could make gobs of money. It's not like Nintendo has a movie studio they can just start making a movie with. Building one for a single movie would be a waste of money too. Sony Pictures is as viable of a studio as any.

Sony's a very diverse company. What the Playstation division does doesn't really affect what their movie studio does.

It's not like Nintendo wants to dismantle Sony either, they just want their products to do well. This industry isn't that cutthroat. Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo are competing yes, but the industry is more than large enough to accommodate all three and they know it. If anything the industry is too diverse for even two companies to properly cover. With the 3 each can focus on specific markets without having to risk diversifying too much.

Can't wait!

Thank you Sony?

What is so weird i dont get it ....

So if they make a game based on the movies do they only appear on wii u or could it be the first mario multiplat? It's not like they'd have their A team making it anyways, it'd probably be farmed out.

They should go to Disney for this.

Sony Pictures is a mess right now.

@getyeryayasout said:

Wait, what? There's already a Mario movie, and it's a fuckin' blast.

remember seeing that on wb11 as a kid on tv no cable

why disney already did an animated film with nintendo's rights for bowser

@mr-powers: Philips CDii already took the honor of doing that. :P

Wow

How. How? HOWdo you make a movie about a guy who doesn't talk and just jumps?

Mario is coming to PlayStation confirmed.

No plz.

@getyeryayasout said:

Wait, what? There's already a Mario movie, and it's a fuckin' blast.

That shit was dope... In the worst possible way.

It's about time to see a new Mario Animated adventure.

All the more reason to repeat this. As Wreck It Ralph is one of the best movies about video games.

Hard to imagine what an animated Super Mario Bros would look like......

My first reaction as well. :)

Nintendo third party confirmed

It's going to suck. Only people who may get it right are Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

If you can't beat them..... destroy them from the inside out! :D

Ppl Are desperate for Nintendo to go third party lol this is a movie didn't you read the topic I guess not there as stated above was Already a smb movie did they go third party then ? Obviously not

Looks like they're one step closer to overthrowing the Nintendo empire!

Wouldn't be nearly as mind blowing for TC and a few others if they ever could get away from playing company wars all day. Never happen though.

Besides, this isn't a greenlit project. They have rights to make one, and that's as far as they've gone. No one attached to the project, nothing to announce.

If you have to hype your own thread with false or misleading info, then it wasn't worth posting to begin with.

Nothing will ever surpass the GOAT Mario film